When Carlos Correa went down in May with a torn peroneus brevis tendon in his left ankle, the assumption was his season was done. If Correa comes back in September on a surgically repaired ankle, plays a few weeks with almost no ramp-up and something goes wrong, the Astros aren’t just losing him for a month. There was an infield glut at one point that was first alleviated by Jeremy Peña’s injury earlier this season, but then by Correa missing time. It’s a team that seems to have found stability specifically because it stopped needing Correa to be healthy. All this to say that if Correa is fully healthy and there are no restrictions in his return, the conversation does change things a bit.